News Summary

• Makers of enterprise generative AI (“GenAI”) acted aggressively in gathering and using training data.
• As a result, numerous content creators sued them for using their copyright property in training without permission.
• Last month, courts issued the first two rulings on these claims.
• The decisions are inconsistent, but they show that GenAI makers may face enormous financial liability for past training actions and huge licensing costs for training going forward.
• The makers of enterprise GenAI and their flagship products are now household names, such as OpenAI (ChatGPT) and Google (Gemini)